What's new this week

new dam. 2013-02-24.

The beaver is still active in its new location. That's the good news. The continuing news is that I still have failed to capture the beaver with the trail camera. The bad news--nah. It's too nice a day out, and my trail companions of the afternoon were far to nice people to have bad news.

We had a nice afternoon nosing around and made some observations. We did not observe a beaver lodge or den. Perhaps, the beaver is living somewhere in this mess of sticks piled up on a fallen tree? You can see the pile on the left of this picture. There is another on the opposite bank, not visible in this picture. You can't see it, but the dam is behind the fallen tree. This photograph is looking downstream. You might also observe the evidence of heavy flooding along the stream and it's banks. Notice that some of the banks are undercut by the heavy currents? Trees are falling in to the stream.

Stormwater is the only source of pollution to in the Chesapeake Bay that is increasing.

the new entrance to the old den.

The old dam is almost gone. Still lodged behind what is left of it is a lot of silt. The old beaver lodge is still visible, and so is the hole that some other animal has dug, presumably to reuse it as a new home. Perhaps when the weather, and the water, warms, I will get in the stream and try to find the beaver's entrance tunnel. It is not visible from either bank.

leftovers from someone's dinner.

We also saw some deer bone that some animal has dragged on to the path. I don't know if this is from a wild animal or a dog. A great number of dogs are led along this path. I wonder what the beaver thinks of so many dogs running over its home? They haven't caused it to leave yet.

Finally, even though I have failed to record a beaver with the trail camera, we do have red fox in the area.







More later.